Flourishing Coaching Guardians
Knowledge tells us what to do. Coaching helps us actually do it. These lifestyle medicine coaches walk beside people until healthy living becomes their own.
🌟 Coach Ruben J. Guzman
MPH, DipACLM · Sacramento, California
Author of How to Fully Live and Evolving Health. One of the first professionals board certified in lifestyle medicine. Lost more than 50 pounds in 1995 and has coached others to lasting change for three decades.
👑 Andie 💪🏼 Otto 🪷
NBC-HWC · Boulder, Colorado
National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and ACLM Certified Lifestyle Medicine Coach. Founder of Nourished, LLC. Holistic nutrition specialist, perimenopause coach, and personal chef: she can coach the change and cook the meal.
What a Flourishing Coaching Guardian is
Kitchen Monk’s Guardians are people whose work protects and grows flourishing in others. Meryl Fury, MS, RN, our Chief Flourishing Guardian, guards the garden of nursing and plant-based support. Chef Robin Jeep, our Chief Culinary Flourishing Guardian, guards the kitchen. Our Coaching Guardians guard the hardest part of any health journey: the space between knowing and doing. They help people find their why, build habits that stick, and keep going when motivation fades.
Want to work with a coach? Look for credentials like NBC-HWC (National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching) or ACLM lifestyle medicine certification, and ask your healthcare team how coaching can fit with your care.
“Flourishing Coaching Guardian” is Kitchen Monk™’s recognition, not a credential, award, or partnership. Each Guardian is independent and has not endorsed Kitchen Monk. Kitchen Monk earns nothing from any link. Coaching supports, but does not replace, medical care.
